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Africans can exist here, for the best of all reasons,--they do exist here.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Africans can exist here, for the best of all reasons,--they do exist here.”
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Mann asserts the existence of Africans in America as a fundamental reason for their presence.
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